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All rights reserved. © Serah Iyare 2017 SYNOPSIS She was thrown into the lion’s den at an early age. Introduced to a lustful world, she became trapped in the dark cage. Breaking the chains that held her bound came at ...

Switzerland’s financial regulator has responded to the booming interest in digital currencies such as bitcoin with a rulebook to support those involved in the market. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) said it would regulate certain so-called initial coin ...

Calls for cryptocurrency regulation were a resounding theme at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. The world’s most prominent financial institutions remain wary of going all in on cryptocurrencies, amid fears of future regulation leading the marketplace to ...

Forget the Bitcoin bubble-talk and gear-up for surprise Mega-pumps In the last few weeks, we saw a steep correction unfolding across cryptocurrency markets as a spate of hacks compounded worries that the world’s third-largest market for Bitcoin trade-South Korea-was cracking ...

China and Nigeria lead the world’s peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin transactions in the year 2017 outpacing major European countries, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, according to data from LocalBitcoins.com. Despite the clampdown on bitcoin exchanges and orders ...

Bitcoin has cemented its glory year by hitting ₦7.28 Mln ($20,000) barely a month after achieving five figures for the  time in history. After many weeks of considerable volatility, mixing rapid growth with sudden declines, momentum finally boosted Bitcoin to its ...

Today Bitcoin surged past ₦5.096 mln ($14,000) level, topping out at ₦5.241 mln ($14,400) for a ₦910k ($2,500) gain within a day. This makes today the biggest one-day gain in the annals of the currency. To place it in perspective, ...

Bitcoin has finally surmounted the maximum psychological barrier of, passing  ₦3,640,000  ($10,000) and showing no signs of stopping. Carrying out a week of consolidating at all-time high levels around ₦2,912,000 ($8,000), Bitcoin found the strength to go up powerfully during ...

Max Keiser has publicly called arrested Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal a “poster boy for why you should obtain Bitcoin.” In a bout of the Keiser Report on Russia Today, the outspoken Keiser said the world’s richest Arab “wouldn’t have ...